Re:Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Rew...
by phs318u on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:28PM
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> I've always described Reddit to new users as 'a community of communities', because that's what it is.
Which is an interesting point to make because that's exactly the experience I'm finding with Mastodon, having joined a community-specific instance (metalhead.club) which gives me that feeling of being in a community, but having some access to users from other communities via following interesting people. That last thing is the key difference with Mastodon - discovery is different. There's no algorithm pushing things into your feed - you need to be much more active in your own content discovery.
Re:Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Rew...
by kaba0 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:10AM
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What I find strange is that I don’t want to be part of only a single community. Yeah I know I can follow others, but to me it’s still somehow stranger than e.g. reddit’s model.
Which is an interesting point to make because that's exactly the experience I'm finding with Mastodon, having joined a community-specific instance (metalhead.club) which gives me that feeling of being in a community, but having some access to users from other communities via following interesting people. That last thing is the key difference with Mastodon - discovery is different. There's no algorithm pushing things into your feed - you need to be much more active in your own content discovery.